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Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company, has announced the launch of its Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume V, The Symptom Media Collection. This volume will offer over 400 Symptom Media training videos, helping students to better recognise and provide accurate diagnoses of mental health disorders by exploring the most critical topics aligned to the DSM-5®/ICD-10.More

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The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, will hold the 9th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) at the Altis Grand Hotel on September 20- 21, 2017. Now established as a key event in the scholarly publishing calendar, COASP brings together the open access community and major stakeholders to discuss critical issues, developments, innovations, and best practices in the industry.More

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Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, has unlatched over 200 titles from the recently-funded KU Select 2016 collection of 343 Humanities and Social Sciences e-books. This brings the total number of unlatched books from all KU collections to over 300.More

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Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), along with the College of Southern Nevada and Nevada State College, has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery platform. The Alma platform’s resource management and capability to integrate with existing infrastructures and third-party systems, such as UNLV’s automated storage and retrieval system (LASR), were major factors in UNLV’s decision.More

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OCLC Research and Ithaka S+R have announced a new project – University Futures; Library Futures. Both organisations are joining forces to carry out a collaborative project on the future of academic libraries, in the context of changes in the higher education landscape. In this project, the research question is: what happens when libraries differentiate themselves in terms of services, not collection size; are there multiple models of success?More